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July 21, 2011

I’m happy to announce my first (short) book “How to Count”, is now available on Kindle. Coming soon to unprotected PDF, print-on-demand (and iBooks/ePub if I can figure out how).

“How to Count” is the first volume of what I hope will become a series called “Programming for Mere Mortals”, designed to teach you programming concepts from the inside-out.

It covers such computer-y topics as:

• Numeric bases (decimal, binary, hexadecimal) and converting between them
• Floating point and fixed point arithmetic
• Signed vs. unsigned numbers
• Units of data measure

It’s about 70 pages long, and costs US$2.99.